Thank you to Sue Kruczek, who lost her wonderful and talented son Nick to the Opioid scourge, for your kind words while on @foxandfriends. We are fighting this terrible epidemic hard – Nick will not have died in vain!

Kruczek said, “That’s been my goal, to reach the president and now I know we did it. The acknowledgment that we are in the worst epidemic America has ever seen, the acknowledgment happened and a little bit of funding has been signed and that’s a start.”

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